Potential of Legumes in Mitigating Environmental Emissions of Milk Production

Potential of Legumes in Mitigating Environmental Emissions of Milk Production kaelo@helsinki.fi Fri, 04/09/2026 - 16:26 MSc Olli Pitkänen investigated how legumes, specifically faba bean and red clover, affect nitrogen use efficiency in milk production and ruminal methane emissions. The research was carried out at the Department of Agricultural Sciences. Dairy cattle is a central part of Finnish agriculture, but the environmental emissions of animal production, such as nitrogen emissions increasing eutrophication and methane emissions contributing toward the climate change, are an important is